"Francois gets DROPPED OFF! by Maucus this week for the upset."
Good afternoon, Gents!
Inside the Mind of JB
2-5 & I had a migraine this morning.
After all of the time I put in for fantasy football, this is my record. This fall semester’s conversations with the various guys in this league brings me to one theme: I go too hard when it comes to life. I’m holding down 4 part time jobs, none of which have anything to do with Andrews University as a student worker, Berrien Springs as a community worker, or even the state of Michigan as a future state resident. I am a captain of my flag football team and attend a full load of classes. I am getting married in less than 8 months and still have an ever budding relationship with Jesus Christ. Then there’s this ugly mug, known as fantasy football.
My body, unlike Dan’s, can’t take the fast paces and all nighters of life. This morning as I laid in bed with motion sickness and a pounding migraine, somehow my mind wandered back to fantasy football. What am I doing wrong? Then I thought...what is the one thing that has made me successful in anything I do? The answer: consistent thinking outside of the box combined with always switching things up as a result of research. Thus, my crazy waiver moves this week. I have noticed that anytime I take advice from others, I fail in what I do in fantasy football and lose that week’s game. The moment I actually go out, do my research, homework, put forth the hours and then look like I’m NUTS for making the moves that I make...I succeed. Has anybody else noticed how quick the fantasy live guys are to reminding everybody when they were right about certain guys they predicted to blow up the week before? What about when they were wrong? We hear NOTHING about that! And the biggest thing that has tripped me up this season is the advice of these guys. I mean, these dudes are getting PAID. Yet, I do this for free. And I am wrong a LOT. Yet, these dudes still get paychecks even when they’re wrong. In conclusion, I am done with these clowns. Cut Spiller, really? Really, Adam Rank?! Okay, let me cut him to then have him blow up in the next 2 weeks, see some other team in my league pick him up off waivers and then I end up getting screwed out of a win once again. Nah, I don’t think so. You see, fantasy football is all about luck. No, not Andrew Luck but luck in its entirety. There is no such thing as skill. And as Justin once said, “we don’t suit up, the players do.” Yet, we take credit for what they do- the biggest form of irony I have ever seen.
This past weekend whilst I did homework & Anya, my lovely fiance, sewed up my pants for flag football games this week...I watched ALL games until the last play of the Broncos-Colts game. Locally televised games on the big screen and the others on laptops. Here’s what I have to say about this weekend’s games:
First off, how dumb do you have to be to diss on Steve Smith’s family & then get torched all game by Steve Smith? Idiocracy. Seahawks & Chiefs continue to be legit. Rodgers & the Packers’ defense keep stepping up through the injuries. Andy Dalton is not that good but he is still putting up major fantasy points. How the Pats can screw up such a game against the Jets, I’ll never know. Bears & Rams are screwed at the QB position. The Niner’s week to week inconsistency completely baffles me. One week Cap looks like a STUD but the next week he looks more naked than those nude photos he posed for in the summer. Steelers have the best disciplined team. ENOUGH with using Peyton Manning & choke in the same sentence! He is human after all, isn’t he? Luck against Manning any given Sunday I’d STILL take Manning, even WITH Luck as my fantasy QB. Giants & Vikes are just...baaaaad. Vikes especially, I mean...what the heck is the front office thinking? And trading Peterson? Nah, brah. Nah. Why give Freeman the ball to pass 53 times when he can’t even hit a billboard if it’s sitting 2 feet in front of him...especially when you have a 2012 MVP RB in Peterson where a Giants defense can’t even stop a mouse?! Dan, have you thought about giving the Vikes a call to suit up and play as QB?
2-5 & I still have a migraine this evening.
Guys, I have some beats dropping this next month along with some theological lyrics dropping on some of those same songs I wrote back in February during my time & late nights with Dan Martinez at Union College & Linda Becker rottweilering down my neck because of her feminist views and because she didn’t like my “overbearing male influence” (her quote, not mine) on campus. Still, I went hard and now they’re finally dropping to the public this next month (which just so happens to be around my birthday of Nov. 1st). Am I ashamed at plugging myself in a fantasy football league Wednesday story? Absolutely not.
Slowing down. Again, I am getting married. Once those tears hit the floors of an echoed couple of “I Do’s”, I am finished with football. As far as fantasy is concerned, with the way things are looking, I’ll probably be finished come December. But you know what? I’m okay with that. Will I stop researching and trying hard to win? Of course not, but this has been fun. My goal this year has been to get you guys closer. And in doing so, there’s been more drama but there has also been more communication between everybody. Like Reece said yesterday, there’s nothing like “comunicado between hermanos” (okay, so he didn’t write a lick of Spanish, whatevs! I paraphrased) on any given Sunday.
2-5 & I still love this league. Cliche but I never get sick of seeing it: “I love this league”. More so than that, I love the guys in this league. Much love to ya’ll. Here’s your pick 6 for the week.
#JB’SPICK6
(JB’s Current Pick 6 Record: 29-21)
(Reece: 8-4)
(Steven: 7-5)
(Justin: 4-4)
(Hery: 6-7)
#6). New York @ Philadelphia
JB’s PICK: GIANTS
#5). Dallas @ Detroit
JB’s PICK: COWBOYS
#4). Pittsburgh @ Oakland
JB’s PICK: RAIDERS
#3). Atlanta @ Arizona
JB’s PICK: CARDINALS
#2). Carolina @ Tampa Bay
JB’s PICK: PANTHERS
#1). New York @ Cincinnati
JB’s PICK: BENGALS
Here is where I pass the week's torch to YOUR picks & comments...
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